Analytical Cytology: Methods for Studying Cellular Form and Function

The theory and techniques of radioautography have been described,
the latter in detailed. The recorded applications of the method have been
summarized. It is believed that the technique is an important one in the
field of biology because of the necessity of knowing whether individual
cells or cell units preferentially concentrated radioactive substances in
contrast to the uniform distribution in an organ presumed when organ
or animal radioactivity is counted by Geiger-Müller techniques. The
method focuses attention upon the metabolism of individual cell types
or units. Furthermore, the intracellular localization of some radioactive substances id possible, and in favorable circumstances one obtains
intranuclear and intracytoplasmic differentiation. It is conceivable that
with some of the larger chromosomes it may eventually be possible,
with tritium-labeled compounds and the development of finer-grained,
more sensitive emulsions, to observe intrachromosomal concentrations
(25, 40, 64, 89).

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